academic exercise

collocation in English

meaningsofacademicandexercise

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academic
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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exercise
noun
uk
/ˈek.sə.saɪz/us
/ˈek.sɚ.saɪz/
physical activity that you do to make your body strong ...
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(Definition ofacademicandexercisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofacademic exercise

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The proposed distinction between the heritage industry and its indigenous counterpart is not merely anacademicexercise.
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An analysis in comparative bioethics is more than anacademicexercise.
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Understanding this phenomenon is not simply anacademicexercise, as the strategies pursued may have a significant impact on the shape the eventual state takes.
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In some cases the impressionistic information has so affected opinion that the presentation of data from large-scale trials providing greater validity and reliability becomes merely anacademicexercise.
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Moreover, this restriction of the domain to non-periodic subshifts is not merely anacademicexercise but, in fact, will develop foundational techniques necessary for the general situation.
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That is an indication of theacademicexercisewith which we are concerned.
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Creating the right conditions for employment is not just anacademicexerciseon a computer programme.
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In my view, we should be very careful that this does not become anacademicexercise.
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People look on it as anacademicexercise.
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In thisacademicexercisewe must balance the advantages and disadvantages when considering whether mergers should be investigated before or after they have taken place.
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That is anacademicexercise, and we have made available to the industry the results.
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Any talk in present circumstances of increasing our share becomes nothing more than anacademicexercise.
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We sit here and debate this matter, we talk about various cases and discuss the thing rather like anacademicexercise.
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Therefore, to discuss the merits of taking into public ownership the banking and main financial institutions is an interestingacademicexercisebut no more.
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They are not engaged in anacademicexercisebut are encouraging the development of business there.
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Let us not continue to pretend that this is anacademicexercise.
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I regarded them very largely as anacademicexercise.
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We should, therefore, have engaged on anacademicexercisewithout the prospect of early success.
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We are therefore engaged on very much more than anacademicexercise.
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I hope that the appeal will not become a pureacademicexerciselong after the event for which the original visa was applied for.
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